KSP will partner with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on Sept. 26, in a collaborative effort to remove potentially dangerous controlled substances from home medicine cabinets. Collection activities will take place from 10 a.m. through 2 p.m. in every KSP Post area across the state. The closest KSP location is Post 5, 100 Citation Lane in Campbellsburg, right off I-71.

With only 14 volunteers remaining on its staff, North Oldham Fire Department doesn’t know exactly how to utilize the group that experienced a mass exodus when the department went to full-time paid staff last year.

When Chief Tim Conway started his tenure last year, 45 volunteers were on the roster with only 15 that were certified firefighters, a dramatic and recent decline.

After recent renovations, the Little Colonel Playhouse in Pewee Valley will reopen with a new look and a new season of plays.

Aesthetic changes to the building include repaints of outdoor stairwells and window trims, refurbishments to the shutters and a brand new sign that will hang on the corner of the building while the old sign is moved up higher.

Between hanging out with friends, after-school jobs and regular, every-day high school stresses like classes and homework, two Oldham County girls are also winning national titles at horse shows.

Oldham County High School junior Kaeley Arterburn of La Grange recently won the 16-year-old division at the World Championship Horse Show in August and won gold medals in Indianapolis this past weekend.

In celebration of the new bridge being built across Interstate 71, Oldham County Fiscal Court is holding a contest allowing entrants the chance to be the first to cross the bridge.

The contest will have three winners, one for three different modes of transport. Winners will have the chance to either bike, walk or drive across the new overpass. They will also receive a gift card to Hometown Pizza.

On Sept. 24, the John Black Community Center will host a Vietnam Veteran’s Lunch organized by the Kentucky Veterans of the Year and the Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration.

The intent of the event is to recognize the service of Vietnam veterans who received a vastly different welcome home than most veterans do, Stephen Davis, chair of the committee that organized the event, said.